Senior Software Development Manager, S3

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow an organization of senior engineers and engineering managers.
• Define and execute a 1–3 year roadmap spanning query performance, table maintenance, metadata scale, and Iceberg evolution.
• Drive architecture for exabyte-scale distributed systems, metadata services, compaction, optimization, transactions, and engine integrations.
• Improve performance, cost efficiency, ingestion throughput, and customer trust in S3 Tables.
• Contribute to Apache Iceberg and partner with its community, AWS teams, and external engine teams.
• Partner with product, business, and analytics leadership to translate customer needs into engineering priorities.
• Set operational standards for availability, durability, latency, and throughput.
• Recruit, develop, and retain talent; represent S3 Tables in leadership reviews, customer engagements, and external forums.

Basic qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience.
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 10+ years planning, designing, developing, and delivering consumer software.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
• Experience managing concurrent programs, projects, and development teams in an Agile environment.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing and developing large-scale, high-traffic applications.

About AWS

Compensation

• The listed base salary range for Vancouver, British Columbia is CAD 214,200–357,800 annually.
• Total compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; benefits include health coverage, retirement plans, and paid time off.